| BTFeather55 said:
Yeah, but see, I can take your first paragraph and do this with it and be just as accurate: Fixed: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask or The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, or The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess or Mario Kart Wii, Metroid Prime 3 or Super Smash Brothers Whatever) did nothing for gaming- it took the same game that we've seen many times, put it in a new world with better graphics and a better control scheme, but made it less fun than any Zelda, Mario Kart, Metroid Prime, or Super Smash Brothers game in the past few years. The story, soundtrack, gameplay in GTA IV are far from average. I've already talked about the soundtrack. Smashing Pumpkins in their prime, The Sisters of Mercy, many more. Soundracks don't get better than that.
Your third paragraph fixed:
Such a cinematic masterpiece as GTA IV dealing with real issues effecting a real subgroup in our society and solutions to problems which might not be the most legal or ethical ways to go about trying to make your life as good as it can possibly be in a country where billion dollar bailouts go to billionaire companies while the poor gets jack and we may actually be headed back to the days of Dillinger and Capone as result really gets the shape that the Liberty City or Liberty Nation that America has become at this point in our history is in and it is a very accurate portrayal of our times. Sadly enough . One can be thankful though that in our time video game critics much to the chagrin of fanboys across th entire spectrum of gaming have got this one thing right that GTA IV was at its release and has remained the very best game of 2008.
Mass popularity usually results in idiotic comments like Wii Fit should be Game of the Year because it has sold so many copies as a result of endorsements from the likes of Ellen Degeneris and CBS News promoting it for use by seniors that have a hard time exercising in other ways. GTA IV definitely deserved to be Game of the Year in 2009. But some argument can be made that MGS 4 deseved more than runner-up status and it should have been a tie.
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Why are you so pro-GTAIV? Are they paying you? The mass - not general - the mass consensus is the game sucks. I think the game sucks, 85% of the people in this thread think the game was either average or sucked. Your first paragraph makes absolutely no sense as a rebuttle, because all of those games (except that horrible wannabe metroid) actually improved on the previous games. GTAIV, while I give them kudos for trying, took a step back. Rockstar actually made the game worse. Just because they have 2 artists that you like doesn't make the games soundtrack amazing.
It doesn't matter if the game has anything to do with current events or if you think that's what our world is beginning to reflect. That doesn't fix the millions who bought the game and cried bloody murder because it sucked. It doesn't fix all of them trading their games in and having more copies of GTAIV on the shelves than any whole genre for any current system out, or all games of a single genre for all systems out combined. Go check your gamestop and count how many FPS games are out and how many copies there are in total, it won't add up to 44. And that's just used copies. You defending this game makes you look worse every time you post. We get that you like it, but you're on a skiff cast away from the cruise-liner that is VGChartz. No one here is going to read your post and be like 'Oh, you know, maybe hes right. All that time I spent frustrated over this game and cursing, wanting so badly to throw my controller at the screen every time I saw something they messed up, that was all my imagination.' All GTAIV is and will ever be is a good whore - it doesn't matter how good it REALLY was in the bedroom, because it looked good and still made it's money. And unfortunately, Rockstar is going to say 'Oh shit, our game sold millions, everyone loves what we did with it!' and fuck up another sequel.
GTA was and always has been a first-day buy for me. I've owned every previous game and beaten almost all of them at least twice. After GTAIV, I'm done with that franchise. No more first day buys, I won't even rent the game. They'll either come out with a demo to try and convince me that this was a fluke, or I'll see it when someone I know has it. Otherwise, unless they start selling it for $30 or less, I'll probably never own another. And that's sad considering I've been on the GTA bandwagon since the beginning.
